It was proved against them that they put poisoned sugar in the coffee for some of our soldiers.

You heard about the case, didn't you ?" "I heard something about it," said Rosenthal.
That was all they said.

After three weeks of war a tragedy like this has become commonplace, not only to these soldiers but to us.

Already all of us, combatants and onlookers alike, have seen so many horrors that one more produces no shock in our minds.

It will take a wholesale killing to excite us; these minor incidents no longer count with us.